1. Colonial period to the Civil War 1746-1862 -- Lucy Terry Prince ; Phillis Wheatley ; Ann Plato ; Zilpha Elaw ; Jarena Lee ; Nancy Gardener Prince ; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper ; Charlotte L. Forten (Grimke) ; Harriet E. Adams Wilson ; Harriet Ann Jacobs [Linda Brent, pseud.] -- 2. Reconstruction to the end of the century 1868-1899 -- Frances Anne Rollin Whipper [Frank A. Rollin, pseud.] ; Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley ; Clarissa Minnie Thompson ; Miss Garrison ; Amelia Etta Hall Johnson ; Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard ; Emma Dunham Kelley Hawkins [Forget-me-not, pseud.] ; Victoria Earle Matthews ; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper ; Anna Julia Haywood Cooper ; Amanda Berry Smith ; Eloise Bibb Thompson ; Marie Louise Burgess ; Ida Bell Wells-Barnett [Iola, pseud.] ; Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson -- 3. Pre-World War I to the New Negro Movement 1900-1923 -- Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins ; Priscilla Jane Thompson ; Susie Baker King Taylor ; Clara Ann Thompson ; Henrietta Cordelia Ray ; Maud Cuney Hare ; Olivia Ward Bush Banks ; Georgia Blanche Douglas Camp Johnson ; Sarah Lee Levy Lindo McDowell Brown Fleming ; Charlotte Hawkins Brown ; Angelina Weld Grimke ; Zara Wright ; Mary Etta Spencer ; Lillian E. Wood -- 4. New Negro Movement 1924-1933 -- Jessie Redmon Fauset Harris ; Nella Marian Larsen Imes